Qiime-tools

**Addition and Improvements**
- New analysis/visualization programs:
- LDA.py (Uses Linear Discriminant Analysis to visualize group-wise compositional differences)
- diversity.py (Visualize alpha diversity as KDE-smoothed histograms)
- New API module
- graph_util (Adds convenience methods for data visualization/graphing)
- biom_calc module:
- Switched to using the official biom-format python library for parsing and handline BIOM files
- Added arcsine square root transformation to the API and added as an option to several scripts:
- iTol.py
- LDA.py
- PCoA.py
- Support for the new UniFrac format in QIIME 1.9
- Adds the following command-line options:
- Set font size
- Set distance between axes and their labels
- Set the azimuth and elevation for 3D plots
- Set the graph styling to look like ggplot2 defaults
- Add Sample ID annotations to graphed points
- Replaces the --dpi option with --fig_size to set the figure size directly
- LDA.py: Added the option to save the LDA-transformed data out as a csv file.
- diversity.py
- Added group coloring by specify a column in the mapping file
- Support for multiple diversity metrics
- Significance testing is now performed to compare alpha diversity between groups
- Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for two-group comparison
- Kruskal-Wallis H-test for comparing three or more groups
- biom_relative_abundance.py: Support for BIOM-format input.
- biom_calc.py: Updated raw_abundance() function to handle BIOM format version 2.x input files.
- iTol.py: Updated BIOM file handling for iTol script (v2.x files).
- PhyloToAST documentation moved from separate repository into the 'docs' folder in the main code repository
- Overhauled the main page for the project documentation
- Added step-by-step instructions to the documentation for many of the executable scripts

**Bug Fixes**
- Prevents duplicate entries from being passed on into the output from restrict_repset.py.
- Fixes the --save_calculations option in diversity.py. Now prints out all metrics in a single column with the second column being group membership.
- Adds pad_taxonomy method (otu_condense.py) to ensure all taxonomy strings have all levels down to species.
- Cleans up error message for line parsing in prune_taxonomy. Makes file error message more readable.

Improvements
- Renamed "QIIME-tools" to "PhyloToAST".
- Added travis.yml file to implement continuous integration using Travis IC.
- Modified the README file to conform with the name change.
- Added PCOA.py script allowing users to create 2D or 3D plots.
- Added restrict_repset.py script, which allows users to create a new OTU representative set file from a filtered BIOM table.
- Updated imports in all the scripts to use "phylotoast" instead of "qiime_tools".
- Improved error handling mechanism in all binary scripts.
- Added try...catch blocks for ImportError and IOError for all third party imports and user required input file handles.
- Added user friendly error message to enable quick debugging.
- Improved and updated all API scripts with new functions.
- Binary scripts now import API scripts and use the functions from API, thus, reducing binary script complexities.
- Modified all scripts to conform to PEP8 format using flake8 module.

**Improvements**
- Cleans up the abundance calculation code and moves the output_relative_abundance() method to the biom_relative_abundance.py script.
- Modifies name extraction from each OTU level so that underscores in the name (after the initial double underscore) are allowed.
- Adds more detail and project badges (downloads,version,format) to the README.

**Bug Fixes**
- Restores accidental reversion of commit 9413c64 introduced by commit 91d6a39.

This version features full build compatibility with pypi, and is now available for download and install with pip:

$ pip install qiime-tools

Most of the changes in this release are related to project structure, edits necessary to get setuptools builds working for release on pypi, and bug fixes.

Additions and improvements
- SLURM template added for use with the multi_parallel_pick_otus script.
- New otu_calc module for working with abundance tables (BIOM) and providing calculations such as Shannon Diversity and relative abundance.
- otu_tax_name.py now handles classic (tsv) BIOM tables in addition to simple lists of OTU IDs.
- New script filter_keep_otus_by_sample.py as the opposite of the QIIME script filter_otus_by_sample.py

First release of the qiime-tools project! Please visit (http://qiime-tools.readthedocs.org) for full documentation and tool explanation.

Please feel free to contribute by forking or opening issues.